Date: 1905
Source: Lenin Miscellany, Volume 27
Pages: 95-98

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[HENRI RUSSIER. "LE PARTAGE DE L'OCÉANIE"]
Henri Russier: "Le partage de l'Océanie". P[aris] 1905. (Thesis).
A very thorough compilation of extensive material. Regrettable that there are no precise statistical summaries (à la Supan). The compilation is good. Many references to literature, maps, illustrations.
The author divides the history of "political partition" into periods:
1) Discovery (16th—18th centuries)
2) Period of missions (1797—1840)
3) "First conflicts" (1840—1870)
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4) "Les compétitions internationales", 1870—1904.
The author cites, among other things, a recapitulative table (of partition) in Sievers and Kükenthal: "Australien, Ozeanien u[nd] Polarlände[r]". L[ei]pz[ig] 1902, p. 67—8
look through*
Then follow detailed economic, commercial, geographical information on individual colonies.
To the economic causes of colonial policy the author adds (NB)—social causes.
"A ces (aforementioned, well-known) causes économiques il convient d'ajouter des causes sociales.—Par suite des complications croissantes de la vie, qui étreignent non seulement les multitudes ouvrières, mais aussi les classes moyennes, on voit s'accumuler d[an]s tous les pays de vieille civilisation «des impatiences, des rancunes, des haines menaçantes p[ou]r la paix publique, des énergies déclassées, des forces tumultueuses qu'il importe de capter p[ou]r les employer dehors k quelque grande oeuvre, si l'on ne veut pas qu'elles fassent explosion au dedans»" (Wahl: "La France aux colonies". Paris, s. d., p. 92.)
(p. 166—7).
* This remark ("the author cites" etc.) is written in the margin of p. 27 of the manuscript, in the upper half on the left side, opposite the foregoing entry. Ed.

Henri Russier: "The Partition of Oceania". Paris 1905. (Dissertation).
A very thorough compilation of extensive material. Regrettable that there are no precise statistical summaries (like those of Supan). The compilation is good. Many references to literature, maps, illustrations.
The author divides the history of "political partition" into periods.
1) Discovery (16th—18th centuries).
2) Period of missions (1797—1840).
3) "First conflicts" (1840—1870).
4) "International competition", 1870—1904.
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The author cites, among other things, a summary table (of partition) in Sievers and Kükenthal: "Australia, Oceania and Polar Lands". Leipzig 1902, pp. 67—8 look through*)
Then follow detailed economic, commercial, geographical information on individual colonies.
To the economic causes of colonial policy the author adds (NB)—social causes.
"To these (aforementioned, well-known) economic causes it is necessary to add social causes.—As a consequence of the growing complications of life, which press not only on the working masses but also on the middle classes, in all countries of old civilization we observe an accumulation of
"impatience, malice, hatred threatening public peace, declassed energy, chaotic forces which must be channeled in order to be employed outward for some great undertaking, if one does not want them to explode within"
(Wahl: "France in the Colonies". Paris, s. d., p. 92)—
(pp. 166—7).

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References to English "imperialism" (p. 171); — American (p. 175)—after the Spanish-American War of 1898,—German (p. 180).
Cites, among other things, Driault: "Les problèmes politiques et sociaux à la fin du 19 siècle" etc. (P[aris] 1900), Chapitre XIV "Les grandes puissances et le partage du monde".

HENRI RUSSIER.
"THE PARTITION OF OCEANIA"
References to English "imperialism" (p. 171); — American (p. 175)—after the Spanish-American War of 1898,—German (p. 180).
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Cites, among other things, Driault: "Political and Social Problems of the End of the 19th Century" etc. (Paris 1900), Chapter XIV "The Great Powers and the Partition of the World".
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